Saturday August 13, 2016
An Online Class Facilitated by Dan Schachter and Dana Ganihar
Part of the Focusing Highlights International Series
Dana Ganihar and Dan Schachter sense a need to support the radical potential inherent in Focusing. They believe there is a danger that Focusing be perceived as just another technique or a magical enigma. One way to avoid this is to integrate more directly The Philosophy of the Implicit into the teaching, culture and practice of Focusing.
Dana and Dan are not professional philosophers, yet their love for this philosophy has enriched their lives and their Focusing process tremendously. They have come to feel a deep commitment to discover trails for Focusers to come more intimately in touch with this wisdom.
A Process Model (APM) by Eugene Gendlin is a living text of profound wisdom. Over time, reading it unsettles our ordinary ways of thinking and our established patterns. It then becomes fertile soil for the growth of new and exciting kinds of concepts and practices. However, it is a dense and complex text, almost encrypted, which tends to discourage even those devoted to Gendlin's vision.
In this class Dan and Dana will:
1. Share three central challenges they have identified in reading APM.
2. Show some methods they have developed to deal with these challenges.
3. Demonstrate how APM concepts can be used to enrich our Focusing process.
Bio:
Dan Schachter, M.A., is a Clinical Psychologist, Focusing Coordinator and a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and supervisor. He teaches Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT) and the Philosophy of the Implicit.
Dana Ganihar, M.Sc., teaches Focusing and the Philosophy of the Implicit, explores the deep potential of Focusing and the process model for diverse fields such as science, architecture and Buddhism.